Unconscious applicants: A systematic test of the name-letter effect

Psychological Science

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1059-1061

  Anseel, Frederik ^a   Duyck, Wouter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; BELGIUM; DECISION MAKING; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; PROBABILITY; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ASSOCIATION; BELGIUM; CAREER CHOICE; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; NAMES; PROBABILITY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 55449107201     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02199.x     Document Type: Note

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